Subject: PC-Pine: [BBOARD failed: Can't open mailbox *Mail/[]: no such bboard]

From: [email-masked] (Jocelyn G)
Date: 19 Jan 97 00:25:17 GMT

I just installed PC-Pine 3.95 on my computer (I'm on Win95), and I'm
trying to connect to my Unix account with my OTHER account, with a PPP
connection.  The HELP file does not help me that much, and it seems I
can't configure Pine to retrieve mail from the remote server. 

Does the error message "[BBOARD failed: Can't open mailbox *Mail/[]: no
such bboard]" ring some bell to someone, and can anybody help me?

I have a very specific reason to use Pine, so don't suggest changing
software, I'm already using another one, but I HAVE to use this new
version of Pine also for some operations... 

If you could be kind enough to also send the answer by e-mail, in case my 
mail server screws up, which happens sometimes..., I would be glad.

Hopefully,

		Jocelyn G
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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 17:27:34 -0800

> such bboard]" ring some bell to someone, and can anybody help me?

What is the setting of your inbox-path?  It looks like you have it set to
"*Mail/[]".  This is not correct, and looks like a rather bizarre
combination of a folder collection and a news specification (in other
words, it's not right for anything).

An inbox-path in PC-Pine should look something like
	{foo.bar.com}inbox
only you substitute the name of your UNIX server system for "foo.bar.com".

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From: [email-masked] (Rick Roberts)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 05:25:53 GMT

I think I followed the example given here correctly for getting Pine
to access a POP3 account. I added this to my pinerc:
incoming-folders="POP
Account"{preferred.com/pop3}/usr/spool/mail/$USER

I can't get PC Pine to access either way. I keep getting a "Bad
Username or Password" return.

I do know that my provider is using a shadow password system.
Does this effect PC Pine?

On 19 Jan 1997 05:06:06 -0800, [email-masked] ("Robin S. Socha")
wrote:

>Now, there's some basic information missing. What kind of account are you
>trying to access: POP3 or IMAP? It's possible (though cumbersome) to access
>POP accounts with pine:
>
>:If you leave the 'normal' inbox the way it is (reading mail from
>:/usr/spool/mail/username), but you enable incoming folders (one of
>:the many checkboxes in Pine's setup), then you add that part under
>:the Incoming-Folders= field.
>:
>:  Incoming-Folders="POP Account #1" {mailhost.interl.net/pop3}INBOX,
>:        "POP Account #2" {mail.otherisp.com/pop3}INBOX,
>:        "POP Account #3" {mail.1234.org}INBOX
>
>There doesn't seem to be a solution to the "how can I make pine remember my
>password"-question, though.
>
>Turn to your sys-admin for advice, because that's not a pine problem, but a
>problem with the set-up of your "sendmail". i.e. the program that delivers
>the mail into the net.
>
>On the contrary, I'd suggest not using any other program except pine, but
>maybe I'm a bit biassed.
>
>Cheers,
>Robin
>
>P.S. Is this becoming a FAQ? Is the abovementioned feature of pine being
>added to the documentation? *nag*
>
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From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 14:08:44 +0100

> Username or Password" return.

PC Pine does not support POP3.

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Peter - http://www.mds.mdh.se/~dat95pkn/